Believe it or not she has done well in Alaska. Getting things done, undoing the damage of the previous administration, not coziness up to big oil - but actually keeping the state's interest in mind. As i've posted before it, when she took office Palin went out of her way to work with democrats, instead of the bulling manner of the previous admin.
What did obama do in his two years in the senate?
Gores son was busted in 2000 driving an SUV in North Carolina at 100 mph. It was an interesting situation that looked suspiciously covered by the police. He was also busted in 2002 in Virginia under the influence, 2003 for drug posession in a vehicle that got him into a rehab center, and finally in 2007 for drug posession after doing 100 mph.
I dont really care about Gore's kids problems. I brought it up to point out how the media barely touched the subject. If it was Palins kid doing 100 in an SUV. The kid and Sarah would be lambasted. Either way kids should be left alone in a race.
Considering how hard it was for you to find any information excect the one last year that really got the kid into trouble. It kind of proves my point.
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Wait! Al Gore's son was busted during the year he ran for President and the media didn't make a front page story out of it??
And the left wonders why we complain about the media double standard.
On the left we have:
A former KKK member
A guy who let his boyfriend run a prostitution ring out of his house
a guy who drove a car into the water and left a girl there to drown
And that is just three examples. Imagine if these guys were Republicans, they would have been run out of office long ago.
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Victims Anonymous is just around the corner.... They'll even give you a nifty coin to clutch on to.....
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Okay, I'll let you go back to discrediting your own argument then...
/really, squirt more tears for the quitter....
Good thing we did not elect a coke snorting, alky, DUI, service avoiding, silver spoon rich kid, favor owing, old boy cluby, to the office of POTUS.
RIGHT!! "snort"I'm not saying it is right... but it should be expected.
The press particularly loves going after religious types who want to imprint their morale priorities on the republic. Palin's daughter getting knocked up was the last thing that Palin needed... these things happen and now Palin was to deal with the heat.
And... this is bad to say... but 14 ain't young anymore. When I was 14, 14 year old girls were offering me sexual favors... and that is almost 20 years ago, now.
Shit dude... the press bagged on FDR for being crippled, Taft for being Orca fat... smear tactics and outright lies were used in politcal campaigns from the inception of our country.
But on the flipside... given the large portion of the media's strong bias to the left (and by left i mean CFR views and politics) it is again expected that the media is gonna use whatever they can to demoralize and snuff the rep. party.
Let's be intellectually honest. In this society and ever since since we've had a historical memory--women have been treated with varying degrees of disdain. That is across the board, not just limited to politics sensu stricto--although if politics = power, then absolutely. Power and wealth, to be sure.
Male dominated societies are the norm in human interaction. A classic example of might makes right.
Consider that when dealing with political issues that affect women disproportionately, such as abortion choice.
Of course Palin is treated differently than say, Sanford. obvious.
Male dominated societies are the norm in human interaction. A classic example of might makes right.
Consider that when dealing with political issues that affect women disproportionately, such as abortion choice.
Of course Palin is treated differently than say, Sanford. obvious.
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You just can't compare Sanford or Gore's son to Sarah Palin. In the case of Sanford and Gore's son, they knew what they were doing was wrong and risky, they did it anyway, and then to screw the pooch they got caught doing something stupid. Subtract that one thing they did wrong, and one is left with a "normal politician able to run on their record." Or in the case of Gore's son, a typical air headed teenager who better outgrow the behavior before he does a George of the jungle straight into a a tree.
But every once in a while we run into someone so wacked out that one loses count of all the delusions that need to be fixed before they can be considered halfway normal. And then suddenly we are in the David Duke, Achmadinejad, and Cythnia McKinney classification that fits Sarah Palin to a tee.
But every once in a while we run into someone so wacked out that one loses count of all the delusions that need to be fixed before they can be considered halfway normal. And then suddenly we are in the David Duke, Achmadinejad, and Cythnia McKinney classification that fits Sarah Palin to a tee.
Al Gore's son got busted for speeding. No drugs, no alcohol, speeding. (the funny thing is that I have gotten a ticket for going the same speed.) You want a front page story and a big deal out of a speeding ticket? Here's a tip: don't ever run a newspaper. And the right wonders why we laugh at their myth of persecution by the media. (not to mention their poor research ability)
As for his reckless driving arrest in 2000, it most certainly WAS reported by the news. ABC, LA Times, CBS News, The New York Times, etc... etc... etc. The funny thing is that the only reason these articles are difficult to find in the SLIGHTEST is because the media was so covered with OTHER embarrassing reports of Al Gore's son that are more recent, so Google assumes you want those. So no Genx, it in no way proves your point. What it shows is that Google reports information from 2007 more readily than a similar event in 2000. This should be expected.
The real problem with the right's myth of media persecution is that it requires you to prove a negative. No matter how often they are proven wrong, they continue to shriek about how the media is unfair to them. They hold up a new case like this one and say "SEE!? WE WERE RIGHT, IT'S SO UNFAIR". Then when they are proven wrong yet again, they just go back to searching for something else they can claim is biased. They never take the pile of all the times they have been shown wrong to mean that maybe their premise is flawed, because it's simply part of their mythology. It's not open to question.
In many ways it's a clever strategy, as the right has been able to very effectively intimidate the media. I just wish the media would realize that no matter how far they go to accommodate the right, the attacks will never stop. They exist for their own sake.
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